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Book SynopsisEveryday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments. 1. Figuring the Everyday 2. Arguments 3. Simmel: Fragments of Everyday Life 4. Surrealism: The Marvellous in the Everyday 5. Benjamin's Trash Aesthetics 6. Mass-Observation: A Science of Everyday Life 7. Henri Lefebvre's Dialects of Everyday Life 8. Michel de Certeau's Poetics of Everyday Life 9. Psotscript: Everyday Life and the Future of Cultural Studies Bibliography. Index.
